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University of Michigan scientists have a clear stance on how individuals should feel about the Ebola virus: Be concerned, but the risk for the average citizen is “close to zero.”

The Ebola outbreak has factored into news headlines since September 30, when Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national visiting family in Dallas, was confirmed to have contracted the virus. There have been three positive diagnoses in the United States since that time, all medical workers who worked in close contact with infected individuals...

Join two faculty from the U-M School of Public Health as we explore Ebola science, fears, and the difficult realities of the epidemic in West Africa. Which public health policies and social responses can effectively contain the outbreak, both in West Africa and here in the US? Join Dr. Arnold Monto, an internationally known expert who can discuss transmission modes and epidemic planning, and Dr. Joseph Eisenberg, whose work (with others) on infectious disease transmission modeling has informed recent Ebola projections of future infection rates and deaths.

The constant stream of news about Ebola right now is enough to scare anyone. Whether it’s the epidemic in West Africa, the isolated cases in the U.S. and Europe, the impact on travelers, or the search for new treatments and vaccines, the headlines just keep coming at us. But a U-M doctor and medical historian says it’s time to step back, and get some perspective on the situation.

Ebola isn't just a public health issue, it's an engineering problem, says Wallace Hopp, a professor of engineering and business at the University of Michigan. "The same principles we use to design safe aircraft and nuclear reactors can be used to design safe healthcare delivery systems and we need those right now," Hopp says. Hopp, co-author of the book Hospital Operations, talks about the weaknesses in healthcare systems that Ebola has exposed, and how the field of reliability engineering can be applied to high-risk health situations.